September 25
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September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 97 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
275 – In Rome , (after the assassination of Aurelian ), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor .
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel , Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens , France .
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England .
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis .
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean .
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League .
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick , the first newspaper to appear in the Americas , is published for the first and only time.
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution : the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment , and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights .
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey .
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia .
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao , guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control .
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts .
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York .
1915 – World War I : The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1942 – World War II : Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands , thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden .
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1 , the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas , is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk , Talduwe Somarama , and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government .
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9 .
1972 – In a referendum , the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community .
1978 – PSA Flight 182 , a Boeing 727-214 , collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego , California , resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations .
1983 – Maze Prison escape : 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison . It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland .
2002 – The Vitim event , a possible bolide impact in Siberia , Russia .
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō , Japan .
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7 .
Births
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 – Steven Borough , English explorer (d. 1584)
1599 – Francesco Borromini , Swiss Italian architect (d. 1667)
1644 – Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot , French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke , American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1764 – Fletcher Christian , English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu , French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
1771 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky , Russian general (d. 1829)
1773 – Agostino Bassi , Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 – Jason Fairbanks , American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 – Charles Robert Maturin , Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1796 – Antoine-Louis Barye , French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont , French geologist (d. 1874)
1825 – William Pitt Ballinger , Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel , German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
1862 – Léon Boëllmann , French composer (d. 1897)
1862 – Billy Hughes , seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan , American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1867 – Evgenii Miller , Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1879 – Lope K. Santos , Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun , Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1889 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 – Sandro Pertini , President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner , American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 – Gordon Coventry , Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
1901 – Robert Bresson , French film director (d. 1999)
1903 – Mark Rothko , Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich , Russian composer (d. 1975)
1911 – Eric Williams , first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1915 – Ethel Rosenberg , American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 – Jessica Anderson , Australian author
1917 – Phil Rizzuto , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1917 – Johnny Sain , American baseball player (d. 2006)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk , Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Sir Robert Muldoon , Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt , first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1925 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr. , American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini , Italian actress
1926 – Aldo Ray , American actor (d. 1991)
1926 – Jack Hyles , Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 – Sir Colin Davis , English conductor
1929 – Ronnie Barker , British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1929 – Barbara Walters , American broadcaster
1930 – Shel Silverstein , American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi , Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 – Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Terry Medwin , Welsh retired footballer
1932 – Adolfo Suárez , Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
1933 – Hubie Brown , American basketball coach and broadcaster
1933 – Erik Darling , American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
1933 – Brian Murphy , British actor
1933 – Ian Tyson , Canadian singer-songwriter and rancher
1934 – Jean Sorel , French actor
1936 – Juliet Prowse , South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt , first Prime Minister of Greenland
1939 – Feroz Khan , Indian actor (d. 2009)
1943 – Robert Gates , American Secretary of Defense
1943 – John Locke , American musician (d. 2006)
1944 – Michael Douglas , American actor and producer
1944 – Doris Matsui , American politician
1945 – Carol Vadnais , Canadian ice hockey player
1946 – Felicity Kendal , British actress
1946 – Bryan MacLean , American musician and songwriter (Love ) (d. 1998)
1946 – Jerry Penrod , American bass player
1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis , Greek diplomat and politician (d. 1999)
1951 – Cheryl Tiegs , American model
1951 – Mark Hamill , American actor
1951 – Bob McAdoo , American basketball player
1952 – Jimmy Garvin , American professional wrestler
1952 – Christopher Reeve , American actor (d. 2004)
1952 – Gloria Jean Watkins , American scholar
1952 – Anson Williams , American actor and director
1953 – Richard Harvey , British musician and composer (Gryphon )
1954 – Sylvester Croom , American college football coach
1954 – Juande Ramos , Spanish Football Manager
1955 – Steven Severin , British musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees )
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German footballer
1955 – Ludo Coeck , Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 – Jamie Hyneman , American visual effects technician
1957 – Ian Reddington , English actor
1958 – Michael Madsen , American actor
1958 – Eamonn Healy , Irish chemist
1960 – Igor Belanov , Ukrainian footballer
1960 – Sonia Benezra , Canadian television host
1961 – Heather Locklear , American actress and model
1962 – Aida Turturro , American actress
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith , American journalist; wife of Pierce Brosnan
1963 – Tate Donovan , American actor
1963 – Mikael Persbrandt , Swedish actor
1964 – Anita Barone , American actress
1964 – Kikuko Inoue , Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū )
1964 – Joey Saputo , Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 – Gary Ayles , British racing driver
1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy , Irish actress and singer
1965 – Scottie Pippen , American basketball player
1965 – Dave Rundle , former South African cricketer
1967 – Kim Issel , Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Will Smith , American actor and rapper
1968 – John Worsfold , Australian rules football coach
1968 – Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones , Welsh actress
1969 – Hal Sparks , American actor
1969 – Heather Stewart-Whyte , British supermodel
1969 – Bill Simmons , ESPN columnist and author
1970 – Aja Kong , Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Kerri Kendall , American model
1970 – Dean Ween , American musician (Ween )
1971 – John Lynch , American football player
1971 – Brian Dunkleman , American actor
1971 – Jessie Wallace , English actress
1973 – Bridgette Wilson , American actress
1973 – Tijani Babangida , Nigerian footballer
1973 – Bridget Marquardt , American model
1974 – Igor Bogdanović , Serbian footballer
1974 – Bill Bowler , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Olivier Nicolás André Dacourt , French professional footballer
1974 – Richie Edwards (known locally as Wamma) , British bassist
1974 – John M. Granville , American diplomat
1974 – Tye Harvey , American pole vaulter
1974 – Paul Hurst , English footballer
1974 – Chris Impellitteri , American guitarist
1974 – Daniel Kessler , American musician
1974 – Frank Leder , German fashion designer
1974 – Bente Elin Lilleøkseth , Norwegian politician
1974 – Robert "Robbie" Mears , Australian rugby league player
1974 – Victor Medina-San Andrés , American filmmaker
1974 – Eric Moss , American football player
1974 – Víctor Danilo Pacheco , Colombian footballer
1974 – Joel Prpic , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Javier Rosas Sierra , Mexican athlete
1974 – Kemel Thompson , Jamaican athlete
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck , American football player
1975 – Daniel Hyde , British actor
1975 – Declan Donnelly , British actor, television presenter and musician
1976 – Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
1976 – Charlotte Ayanna , American actress
1976 – Santigold , American singer
1976 – Chiara Siracusa , Maltese singer
1977 – Clea DuVall , American actress
1977 – Mike Krahulik , Illustrator
1977 – Joel Moore , American actor
1977 – Wil Nieves , Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Kiyoshi Ijichi , Japanese drummer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation )
1978 – Roudolphe Douala , Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner , Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd , English model
1978 – Ryan Leslie , American music producer and singer
1978 – Joel Pineiro , Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 – Rashad Evans , American mixed martial artist
1979 – Jason Koumas , Welsh footballer
1979 – Jean-René Lisnard , French tennis player
1979 – Chris Owen , American actor
1980 – T.I. , American rapper
1981 – Rocco Baldelli , American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann , American baseball player
1982 – Kany García , Puerto Rican singer-songwritter
1982 – Hyun Bin , South Korean actor
1983 – Terrance Pennington , American football player
1984 – Rashad McCants , American basketball player
1984 – Esther Baxter , American model
1985 – Calvin Johnson , American football player
1992 – Keauna McLaughlin , American figure skater
Deaths
1496 – Piero Capponi , Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1506 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1536 – Johannes Secundus , Dutch poet (b. 1511)
1602 – Caspar Peucer , German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Francisco Suarez , Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
1626 – Lancelot Andrewes , English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases , Italian general (b. 1569)
1665 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll , Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
1774 – John Bradstreet , Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert , German scientist (b. 1728)
1791 – William Bradford , American printer (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut , French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1825 – Joachim Heer , Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1849 – Johann Strauss, Senior , Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1867 – Oliver Loving , American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand , premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle , British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac , French politician (b. 1853)
1917 – Thomas Ashe , Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 – Mikhail Alekseev , Russian general (b. 1857)
1926 – Herbert Booth , son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1929 – Miller Huggins , American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1933 – Ring Lardner , American writer (b. 1885)
1946 – Hans Eppinger , Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
1958 – John B. Watson , American psychologist (b. 1878)
1960 – Emily Post , American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
1961 – Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
1968 – Hans F. K. Günther , German eugenicist (b. 1891)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque , German author (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Lafayette Black , American jurist (b. 1886)
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara , Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 – John Bonham , British drummer (Led Zeppelin ) (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone , Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under , Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 – Donald MacDonald , Canadian politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Hans Vogt , Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian , Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
1987 – Mary Astor , American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Emlyn Williams , Welsh actor (b. 1905)
1988 – Billy Carter , brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
1991 – Klaus Barbie , Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
1991 – Viviane Romance , French actress (b. 1912)
1995 – Dave Bowen , Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
1995 – Bessie Delany , American physician and author (b. 1891)
1996 – Nicu Ceauşescu , Romanian politician (b. 1951)
1997 – Jean Françaix , French composer (b. 1912)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon , Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (b. 1930)
2000 – R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi , Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner , American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 – Franco Modigliani , Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 – George Plimpton , American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said , Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Don Adams , American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 – George Archer , American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan , Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner , American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 – M. Scott Peck , American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter , Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper , American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford , American author and poet (b. 1957)
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha , Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
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